Unioney

<p>Author by Category helps news websites and multi-user blogs keep post authors consistent without disrupting the editorial workflow. The plugin is not limited to authors. <strong>Administrators can assign any user — including editors, contributors, or themselves — to any category.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Create simple rules that connect categories to specific users.  </li>
<li>When a post is saved with those categories, the plugin can automatically assign the author.  </li>
<li>If an editor changes the author manually, their choice is always remembered.  </li>
<li>This prevents posts from being published under the wrong name by accident.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Works with any user — not just authors.  </li>
<li>Admins can assign any user (editor, contributor, etc.) to any category.  </li>
<li>Manual author selection is always allowed and remembered.  </li>
<li>Rules can include multiple categories; first match wins.  </li>
<li>Duplicate guard: one category can only be used in one rule.  </li>
<li>Optimized for large sites with many users.  </li>
<li>Secure: follows WordPress coding standards (nonces, capability checks, sanitization).  </li>
<li>Compatible with scheduled posts, REST publishing, PHP 8, and the latest WordPress versions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Best Practice for Performance</h3>
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<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled posts: applies the correct author at publish time.  </li>
<li>REST/remote publishing: ensures the correct author after categories and content are set.  </li>
<li>Designed for large editorial teams.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Author by Category</strong> and create rules that match categories to users.  </li>
<li>When a post is saved or published, the plugin checks which categories are selected.  </li>
<li>If a matching rule is found, the post author is updated automatically.  </li>
<li>If an editor changes the author manually, the plugin remembers that choice for future posts with the same categories.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin does not collect, store, or share any data.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by <a href="https://unioney.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Unioney</a>.</p>


Author by Category

Automatically assign post authors based on categories, while keeping full manual control.

Zane Matthew

<p>This plugin does the “grunt” work for registering a custom post type called “article” with categories,<br />
tags, along with widget support and short-code features.</p>
<p>This plugin is at aimed the user that wants to better organize their content, but not do all the server side code.<br />
I’ve done that for you, all that is left is some light “theming” via CSS. This plugin may seem redundant when compared to “posts”, seeing<br />
as how it has almost all the features of a post, but I’m attempting to separate the “concept” of publishing “content” as a journal entry i.e. post<br />
versus a periodical i.e. article, hope others find it useful.</p>
<p>Widget supports the following:<br />
(Requirments: your theme must support Widgets! For this feature to work)<br />
* Custom title<br />
* Article count<br />
* Choose category to display (choosing ALL may result in “post bleed” on archive pages, not recommmended)<br />
* Choose tag to display<br />
* Choose thumbnail to display<br />
* Show posted on<br />
* Show posted in<br />
* Show excerpt (based on your settings defined in functions.php)</p>
<p>Short-code “most recent articles box” with the following:<br />
* Specify count<br />
* Specify category<br />
* Custom title</p>
<p>Short-code “meta box” and “meta list” with the following:<br />
* unique class name for styling</p>


Article Type

Registers custom post type "article", with category, tag, short-code and widget support

Author by Category vs Article Type